UMass Boston Presents ‘The Art of Italian Cuisine’ at Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts
Discover your inner chef and Italy's incredibly diverse culinary landscape to create your own 3 course masterpiece! Six classes introduce the distinct and exciting cuisines of 6 Italian regions. Each class lasts 4 hours. You will cook in a newly equipped kitchen at the Dante Alighieri Society in Kendall Square, Cambridge, and enjoy your meal in int...
Maryland’s classics department looks at connections between Rome and Washington
By John Kelly About 30 years ago, an Italian friend of ours visited. After a few days doing the tourist thing, he exclaimed: "I love Washington! It's like a Rome where everything works." I don't know what Adriano would think of D.C. today, when Metro breaks down routinely and Congress seems proud of its dysfunction. But I understood his p...
Italian Meeting Point at Techtextil North America
ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, and ICE, Italian Trade Agency, will be taking part in the 2014 edition of Techtextil North America that will be taking place from 13-15 May in Atlanta, GA. The associations have organised a Meeting Point where 13 Italian machinery manufacturers involved in the production o...
“Happy Learning”: da Lecce all’America per promuovere i processi educativi dei cittadini
Raccontare il proprio territorio attraverso le bellezze del paesaggio e i tesori dell'architettura ma anche e soprattutto attraverso i processi educativi e di apprendimento quotidiano dei cittadini: la Puglia Center of America, l'Università del Salento ed il Comune di Lecce, sono lieti di invitarvi alla presentazione dell'iniziativa "Happy Learning...
You are cordially invited to an art talk by Francesco Vezzoli
April 27, 3pm - 5pm MOCA Grand Avenue's - Ahmanson Auditorium250 South Grand Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90012 Discover Cinema Vezzoli from the perspective of the artist on the exhibition's opening day! Francesco Vezzoli and Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, discus...
Italian wine: Friuli Annia and Aquileia
WTI Magazine #29 2014 May, 8Author : Vino OK Translation by: Friuli Annia and Aquileia is produced in Friuli, very fascinating region in northern Italy. More precisely, this wine is produced in a wide area including the towns of Carlino, San Giorgio di Nogaro, Marano Lagunare, Torviscosa, Castions di Strada, Porpetto, Bagnaria Arsa e...
Columbus Foods Meets Salami Growth with 55,000-Square-Foot Expansion of Hayward Production Facility
Columbus Foods has broken ground to expand its existing Hayward, Calif., salame curing and processing facility by an additional 55,000 square feet. Set to be completed by July 2015, the new building will boast drying capacity for 23 million pounds of salame for the company, a venerable San Francisco Bay Area institution that has been bring...
Preview: Open Roads: New Italian Cinema At FSLC
When we think of Italian cinema, we think of undisputed old masters - Fellini, Visconti, Rossellini, Antonioni, De Sica, Bertolucci and so on. But for the longest time, Italian cinema had fallen out of favor. Sure, there have been flourish of genre films in the 60s - 80s. But the Italian public's national pride and interests in their film...
Discoverning Italian pottery tradition
It is called the "town of pottery", and in is located in the region of Apulia, in the south of Italy. Some people get the chance to discover Grottaglie while travelling to Salento, which is one of the most beautiful touristic spot Italy has, but this beautiful little city definitely has the potential to become a holiday destination per se. ...
Italy has two reasons to request the extradition of Amanda Knox
Whether or not Amanda Knox will be forced to return to Italy to serve her sentence for the murder of Meredith Kercher, has been a controversial topic for the past few years. Knox has defiantly stated that she will not go back to Italy willingly. However, new revelations in the Meredith Kercher murder case provide two solid reasons for Knox...
Italian language: At an arm's length from the goal
WTI Magazine #40 2014 July, 23Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: The arm and the mindThe human body can be another interesting starting point to discover the ways of saying and some of the most used phrases of our language. Today we'll talk about the word "braccio" (arm) that comes as always from our dea...
Get ready for St. Roch's Festval in Greenwich
St. Roch Church, 10 St. Roch Ave., will hold its traditional Italian feast for four days this week, followed by a procession from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Sunday. The festival will take place from 6 to 10:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Pizza fritta, with tailor-made dough straight from Arthur Ave. in the Bronx, is one of the favorite eats...